Synopsis
When middle-class Singaporean student Lu Zhao is invited to spend a summer on Long Island with his rich cousin, Tommy, before attending Columbia University in the fall, his assimilation into the opulent American lifestyle straps him into a collision course fueled by designer drugs, sex, deceit, and murder. Set in present-day Long Island, Gatsby reimagines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel as an LGBTQ-tinged, multicultural thriller for the Internet age.
From: Simon & Schuster
Notes on This Title
The main character of this title is a queer, nonbinary person from Singapore. The supporting cast includes a nonbinary pansexual person, a bisexual man who is the main character’s cousin, and a Black gay man.
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